Tell me how this is done…

…and you’ll get a cookie. Or something.

See how well I procrastinate?!?

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the fact that none of the hoops ever passes entirely around him is kind of a giveaway. It’s a very artful, high-tech illusion. I worked with a glitzy high-tech Vegas magician a few years ago (I just played the piano) and he did some pretty mindblowing stuff but it was really all a matter of specialized gear that most of us can’t really get our heads around. It’s been evolving for many many years and continues, just like other branches of technology, and continues to incorporate cutting-edge advances but for obvious reasons it is kept kind of secret. Copperfield just gives it a nice, safe, warm cuddly presentation.

I remember watching this on TV years ago. I figured it was wires until right at the end of the show when he’s standing outside the building in the parking lot with people getting in their cars to go home, giving his post-show “thanks for watching”-type speech to the camera. Once he’s done, the camera cranes backwards and he flies off and the people in the parking lot that notice him start to applaud and cheer again.

There are probably ways of explaining that too, but I don’t think my mind was ever blown quite as much as that day, which is probably why I’ve never forgotten it

Likewise, I saw this on TV well over a decade ago. And, in fact, I think many parts of the show were more memorable. But I’ll say now what I and my family said then:

Of course, it’s just a standard flying routine. The technology can do it. But David Copperfield did it WELL.

–Rexfelum

P.S.: Ashton, just a note: the parking lot scene is actually the least impressive part. Don’t you find it suspicious that he’s giving a “thanks for watching” speech to the camera, with NONE of the fans in the background mobbing him? That didn’t happen after the show. That was a completely staged scene . . . and one in which you couldn’t see the sky over the “flying” man.